DOCUMENTI GEOGRAFICI - N. 1 (2013)

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Carmen Bizzarri Dinamiche spaziali e cambiamenti socio-economici del turismo urbano in Italia   Abstract Nel turismo una delle innovazioni, che in questi ultimi decenni ha assunto grande rilievo,  è la pratica del “turismo urbano”. Questo contributo intende individuare le caratteristiche e gli effetti di questa innovazione, che ha avviato profonde trasformazioni nelle città. Il nuovo“turismo urbano è quella forma di turismo che cerca di dare al turista quella good experience derivante,  oltre che dalla visita dei monumenti, di musei o dei beni culturali, anche dal godimento della città nella sua interezza, dalle attività ludiche e di intrattenimento a quelle più strettamente legate alla identità culturale di quel tessuto urbano. L'innovazione è data dalla presenza di una serie di attività e di servizi, che sono sempre più diversificate e livellate a seconda delle peculiarità e delle esigenze del turista. Queste nuove attrazioni mettono in gioco, peraltro, nuove realtà localizzative  in quanto si insediano nelle periferie delle città, diffondendo il turismo anche tra i cittadini ivi residenti. Il centro delle città diventa così più vivibile: tuttavia nelle periferie le attività turistiche possono comportare anche svantaggi notevoli, soprattutto ai residenti. L'analisi geografica ed economica, che qui viene adottata, vuole evidenziare come questa nuova pratica di turismo urbano può comportare notevoli mutamenti  territoriali spesso inosservati ai responsabili dell'assetto del territorio.  

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The reflection on the combination of landscape and GIS is certainly very broad. In addition to presenting a recent national and international literature, it may positively rely on some crucial questions that regional policies are facing, ranging from the operation to management, from the involvement at real participation of the community in the culture of landscape and a new way of representing it. If the landscape has become more and more a border line, the GIS is a real system of knowledge, with which it is possible to build interpretative models of real problems, which derivation leads to the idea of collective landscape.

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Scipione Breislak (1750-1826) was a Roman geologist and naturalist who studied the volcanic areas of central and southern Italy in the 1780s and 1790s. The Topografia fisica della Campania (1798) – written in Breislak’s stay in Naples where he worked as a teacher of Physics in the Military Academy of Nunziatella and was the Director of the factory alum of the Solfatara of Pozzuoli – shows the results of his investigations on the phenomena of the Vesuvius and the Phlegraean volcanic area. In this report Breislak explains his thoughts on the so called Grotta del Cane. These thoughts show us for the first time the directional concept of the Earth directional and his theory on volcanoes. By rejecting the hypothesis of iron sulphides, adopted few years before in the Essais mineralogiques sur la Solfatare de Pouzzole (1792), Breislak argues that the combustion of the petroleum is the cause of eruptions of Vesuvius. This assumption rules out the Huttonian idea of a correlation between the activities of volcanoes and the heat of the Earth.

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Mauritius island has been nearly uninhabited until XVIth Century, when firstly Portuguese, then Dutch, French and Eng-lish powers took possession of it. The island’s population growth was due to two main causes: in the first moment to the commerce, then to the exploitation of resources, with important environmental transforma-tions.Until the independence was declared in 1968, the main economic source was the cultivation of sugar cane, for which African slaves, and then In-dian and Chinese workers was used.Starting from the independence period the economic structure of the is-land has changed, with a significant diversification of the productive ac-tivities. Beach tourism is now a vital economic sector of the island, but it hasn’t changed the population distribution of the island, mainly concen-trated in the internal areas.The aim of this article is to analyze the evolution of the populating dy-namics of the island and the economic trends and finally observe their territorial and environmental impacts.

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In the course of the time, the concept of «uncertainty» has been investigated from different points of view. The aim of this article is to provide an interpretational key of present territorial process – first of all starting off by the example of Rome town in the real estate market, to make a comparison with other Italian cities – basing on the idea of «geography of uncertainty». Such a conceptual formulation will be associated with uneven developments and oscillatory movements of modern occidental economy.

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The European Mediterranean region. Management and valorization of landscape transformations. – If on the one hand, many Mediterranean landscapes show the signs of an upset of ecological equilibrium and of a loss of identity-making peculiarities, on the other hand we see a renewed social demand, centered on the cultural, social and environmental values of each landscape, which induces to a reconsideration of politics as well. Hence, we have an increasing of regulative documents, agreements, projects and measures about all the different territorial scales. The main objective of this work is to analyze some of these planning proposals and programmatic documents which have been produced in Europe, to discover sustainable ways of territorial regeneration. The leading thread of this paper consists in investigating the meaning and value assumed by some instruments within a territorial planning directed towards innovation and collaborative planning.